I was just thinking Hollywood needed to produce more zombie movies, and then this news pops up. After all, can you remember the last time a zombie movie came out? It must be three or four whole days now! The latest undead tale to get Tinsel Town excited is an adpatation of Isaac Marion’s Warm Bodies, which was originally self-published through his website, before getting picked up in a major book deal.
Variety reports that Summit Entertainment has purchased the screen rights and set The Wackness and All The Boys Love Mandy Lane helmer, Jonathan Levine, to write and direct.
The ‘twist’ with this zombie tale is the same as the one for most of the other undead stories in the works at the moment, where rather than the zombies just being mindless killers, the story centres on a existentially tormented zombie who begins an unlikely friendship with the girlfriend of one of his victims. This sets in motion events that could change him and all zombies forever.
Zombie films have always reacted to changes in society and become comments on it, so what does it suggest that rather than the agressor, a lot of the latest round of undead tales want to take the zombie’s side?